I get inspired by what I go through. Experiencing all these different things we all go through like heartache, falling in love,… — Colbie Caillat Copy Share Image
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Writing is private and personal but after I have the idea and I have some of it in place I'll share it… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book, and… — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
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He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals.… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
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Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
My books have been published all over Europe. They read me there, and I want to read them back. I also spend… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“I must write about the things of the world with no glazing.” She fought doggedly against the great suction into her own… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
I've been thinking a lot about why it was so important to me to do The Idiot as a novel, and not… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
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“T. S. Eliot and Jean-Paul Sartre, dissimilar enough as thinkers, both tend to undervalue prose and to deny it any imaginative function.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I have been very afraid of writing about other cultures and countries. I've been worried about getting the research wrong. I ask… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Both law and comedy are heavily focused on thought and viewing all angles. To write a good joke, you have to look… — Troy Walker Copy Share Image
I'm in love with the way that Ella Fitzgerald delivered a lyric. She would deliver a lyric with the kind of clarity… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
One of the mistakes they often make is the designers over-accessorize or over-elaborate. So you realize: this would work if they removed… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The trap into which all writers have, will, or should fall into, of writing The Great American Watchamacallit, is such an uncluttered… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I've had enormous luck and enormous pleasure in working in such forms as movies and plays that I loved when I was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
There is all this stuff about how sensitive poets are and how in touch with feelings, etc. they are, but really all… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
Everything you do is so personal. In the end, it doesn't matter so much if you write about your own life or… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of… — Helen Slater Copy Share Image
I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context,… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Yashraj liked my writing style, and they had a concept in mind, so they hired me to write. That's how 'Luv Ka… — Shenaz Treasury Copy Share Image
The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
“To imagine writing as absence seems to be a simple repetition, in transcendental terms, of both the religious principle of the inalterable… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I continue to write songs that are topically related to social, political and economic issues of our time, but I also recognize… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
Write like you write, like you can't help but write, and your voice will become yours and yours alone. It'll take time… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
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